Details on fitting a remote oil delivery pipe.

[DevsAd]

Hello again.

Anyone on here familiar with the installation of remote filling pipes for domestic oil tanks?

We are trying to figure out ways of getting a delivery from the front of a cottage to the rear without going through the property. One possibility - still apparently being explored by the cottage's seller - is for the neighbour on one side - who's land goes right up to the cottage's side wall - to allow the owner to have the delivery pipe run alongside the cottage, attached to its wall. We are hoping they'll allow this, but haven't heard anything 2 weeks on...

The alternative is the other side, but the cottage 'touches' the neighbouring house on that side at an angle. Between the two properties is a triangular alleyway around 3-4' wide at the back, tapering to zero where the two buildings touch at the front. What we are wondering is, could an access hole be bored through the cottage's front wall near that corner, coming out in the alleyway?

The cottage is over 100 years old so has stone walls probably around 2' thick, so theoretically plenty of 'meat' there to allow a hole to be bored through with no structural issue. This hole would, however, need to be probably 5' long in order to get past the neighbouring house and in to the alleyway... (It would be bored at a low angle, starting say 1' from the cottage corner, and coming out through the cottage side wall at around 5' down the side from that corner - that make sense?!)

Obviously this would require a specialist drilling company. Our questions are:

1) what diameter pipe is required for remote delivery - it would be a pretty straight run to the tank of a round 16m. We were told by one company that the smallest diameter pipe used is only 1.5" - is this correct?

2) what would be required in terms of a filling connector at the front of the cottage - how bulky and unsightly are they? Can it be enclosed behind a cover of some sort?

3) any obvious problems in principle with what we are thinking? If we provide the hole, should a remote pipe be fittable?

Many thanks

 

[SJB060685]

@SimonG Can you help as my books don't have current requirements

 

[SimonG]

@SimonG Can you help as my books don't have current requirements

I'm same as you on that, maybe something for somebody like A1 tanks or a similar company who lives and breathes tanks.

 

[SJB060685]

I'm same as you on that, maybe something for somebody like A1 tanks or a similar company who lives and breathes tanks.

I'll check with my associates and get back.

 

[SimonG]

It's not even something I would touch to be fair.

Although the ones I've seen tend to be 2" steel.

 

[Chalked]

Not done a remote fill for 15 years .
but the last one we did was in 2inch fusion weld Plastic For undeground It came in straight lengths. For above we used 2 inch black iron. ( threaded)
it needs a gate valve, brass cap and non return at the fill end.
I can’t remember how we stopped it from being over filled. But there was some sort of alarm?
I’m not even sure now if you are allowed, as the guy Filling can’t see how full the tank is.

 

[SJB060685]

From memory its 2 inch, with an NRV at fill end with cap and a drip tray and an overfill alarm of a certain class. My associates haven't got back to me yet but I will update when I have the current requirements
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Current OFTEC books state that if a fill line must be used it must have.
. 2 inch (50mm) diameter black steel or equivalent fill pipe terminating with a 2 inch male BSPP (British Standard Parallel Pipe) thread hose coupling connection and non ferrous screw cap and chain.
.Isolation valve after screw cap.
.Non return valve.
.Drip tray under screw cap.
.A suitable overfill alarm.

 

[DevsAd]

Thank you everyone for your helpful info.

A hard one for you to answer, I suspect, but if a suitable hole were bored through the wall which would probably be around 5' long, are there any reasons why the pipe couldn't be run through this?

Interesting about plastic being used underground, Chalk, that surprised me. But I guess most underground services are run in plastic these days and are pretty safe when buried according to regs.

 

[SJB060685]

If you contact OFTEC direct im sure if you explain your situation they will happily arm you with the information you need and answer any questions you have. Once you've done that you then have a good idea of what the engineer undertaking the work has to do to comply should you go down this route

 

[Ben-gee]

Have no idea on regs but I would like it to be sleeved and with a definite fall if it were my wall.